Colleagues Watch
Discussion
Hi,
Went to a quartley sales meeting today, noticed one of my colleagues who works from home had an interesting watch on. I asked him if it was a Lange as I thought, It was I think it was the larger Lange 1 40 odd mm in silver (White gold?) with brown strap looked it up £22,000!!!
He does the same job as me!
He commented that nobody has ever knew what it was and went quite sheepish! See many hours spent on here are paying off
Went to a quartley sales meeting today, noticed one of my colleagues who works from home had an interesting watch on. I asked him if it was a Lange as I thought, It was I think it was the larger Lange 1 40 odd mm in silver (White gold?) with brown strap looked it up £22,000!!!
He does the same job as me!
He commented that nobody has ever knew what it was and went quite sheepish! See many hours spent on here are paying off
Just think though, if you spent less time here and made more sales you could get a £22k Lange and Sohn! 
I spied an L&S on a guy at work and he merrily confessed it was a fake and that he'd ordered a daytona fake and something else tasty I can't remember. Loves his watches but would rather have a large collection of fakes than one real mccoy.
Apart from a nice panerai fake I saw I just can't bring myself to buy them. And my cards don't agree with the site selling that panerai so god must be telling me it's naughty.
I spied an L&S on a guy at work and he merrily confessed it was a fake and that he'd ordered a daytona fake and something else tasty I can't remember. Loves his watches but would rather have a large collection of fakes than one real mccoy.
Apart from a nice panerai fake I saw I just can't bring myself to buy them. And my cards don't agree with the site selling that panerai so god must be telling me it's naughty.
Chairman LMAO said:
or... just maybe... he bought it with some inheritance or a win on the pools, perhaps it was a gift. The proliferation of fakes has lead us to assume to worst.
The only *really* good fakes are those where the genuine watch uses an ETA movement or one with a simple complication. The fakes can then be pretty much exact replicas, since the Chinese are making replica ETA movements.Manufacture movement watches like the Lange are a LOT trickier and there's nearly always an obvious tell. One of my ex-colleagues bought a fake Lange for a laugh, and whilst the counterfeiters had a good try at copying the Lange 'big date' mechanism, they hadn't quite got the finer details right, like the fact that you can't have more than 31 days in a month. We all laughed at him when his watch was displaying the '38th' of the month
That said, simple watches with off-the-shelf movements are now being incredibly well replicated by the Chinese - there are some pretty-much exact Panerai reps, some decent IWCs and loads of the 'bung an ETA in it' crowd are well copied (I wouldn't want a Breitling or Hublot Big Bang without a AD's certificate...).
So yeah, the 'decent' replica industry does somewhat lower expectations, but for watches like the Lange with a bespoke movement, any watch enthusiast who'd actually *heard* of Lange would also know that a perfect rep is pretty tricky, surely? Nothing wrong with someone paying much more than they should sensibly afford on their passion, no? Certainly I'd be a much more financially stable chap if I didn't love fast cars and watches. Thank god I'm not interested in high-end audio or light aircraft...
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